Science Studies Symposium at Emory - Feb 19

February 2016

Science Studies Symposium
Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Emory University


February 19 2016

12:00-1:30: Brown Bag lunch
Candler Library 125
Hannah Landecker (Director, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics) brown bag lunch with graduate students (discussion of pre-circulated paper). Lunch will be catered. Places are limited, please RVSP to abiagio@emory.edu by Friday February 12.

1:30-2:00: Break

2:00-3:30: Science Studies panel
Few Hall Multipurpose Room
Sari Altschuler (Assistant Professor, English; the Center for the Study of Human Health; Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University): “Imaginative Experimentation”

Vincent Bruyère (Assistant Professor, French, Emory University): “Storage, Burial, and Fictions of Sustainability”

Anne Pollock (Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Georgia Tech School of Literature, Media, and Communication): “Queering Endocrine Disruption”

Chair: Deboleena Roy (Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, Emory University)


3:30-4:00: Afternoon tea


4:00-5:00: Conversation and book launch Gut Feminism: Hannah Landecker and Elizabeth Wilson
Few Hall Multipurpose Room


5:00-5:30: Reception and launch for the feminist science studies journal Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience (http://catalystjournal.org)
Few Hall Multipurpose Room